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REPLICATION MATERIALS
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AUTHORS: Sebastian Juhl and Laron K. Williams
ARTICLE: "Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies"
JOURNAL: British Journal of Political Science
UPDATED: October 21, 2020
CONTACT: sebastian.juhl@gess.uni-mannheim.de
http://www.sebastianjuhl.com


INSTRUCTIONS:
The script "Results.R" contains code to replicate all figures and tables presented in the article and the supplementary materials. The output will be stored in the subfolder "Output" which will be created in case it does not exist already.


SOFTWARE:
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.7

The following R packages were used to perform the analysis:
package:	version:
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- ggplot		2_3.3.2
- dplyr			1.0.2
- MASS			7.3-51.6



TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Main Folder:
	1) "Results.R": main R-script for replicating all figures and tables in the article as well as the supplementary materials.
	2) "Codebook.csv": A brief description of the variables.

	- Subfolder "Data"
		2) "Juhl_Williams_Data.RData": the dataset.
		3) "Matrices.Rdata": the connectivity matrices (based on party family membership).
		4) "Matrices_bloc.Rdata": additional connectivity matrices (based on party blocs) necessary to replicate the results in Supplementary Materials B.
		
	- Subfolter "Output"
		Contains all figures and tables
